Now, let's compress the cathedral-building to a year or two.

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Or, to get back to our earlier metaphor, as if you could compress the entire city's sewage through a single ordinary water pipe.

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"There's no air in space to compress to ring against your ear, " she told CNN in an interview at the TED conference in Long Beach, California, in March.

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In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.

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The new primary schedule will compress the nomination process into about four weeks, with more than half America's states and three-quarters of its population voting in a feverish eight-day spell in March.

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In an apparent response to Apple's iMovie, WinMe will include Windows Movie Maker, a tool that allows users to digitize, compress, edit, sort and share home videos.

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